Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “IK Multimedia T-Racks Saturator X – 5 minute plug-in review”.
Hello, I’m Robin Vincent and welcome to this five minute: plugin review for Ike, a multi media’s, saturator eggs. It’S a multi music technology. Five minutes plugin review saturator x, is a harmonic saturation plugin, which comes part of the tier ax family of compressors limiters, and all that sort of jiggery-pokery t-rex tends to me one of those bits of software that you just sort of turn it on select a preset And it’s very sort of instantly pleasing, but I also find that it’s very easy to overcook it in t-rex, simply because there’s so much fun fiddling with all the lovely knobs saturator x, sorts that out a little bit in that it’s kind of one of those one. Knob to rule them all type plugins, because there’s bugger all controls, really you just select a mode and then whack up the gain to this required amount. It’S not supposed to be anything clever, like a compressor or limiter, is just there to saturate the heck out of your sound.
So this is the sound without anything actually turned on we’re, putting gain down to zero and we’re just going to turn it on and already in this lovely magic meter we have here, we have a little bit of glow going on, which is very satisfying. If you can’t hear anything, but as we push up the game, you’ll start to hear that distortion coming in one really nice feature. I, like is the fact that the gain and the output can be linked together and that way, as I’m pushing up the gate, I’m not just making it louder because the output is coming down relative to that. So what I’m hearing is the saturation of the warmth. I’M not just a boosting sound, which you find with an awful lot of these sorts of processes. You get ten modes within here of ten different forms of analog. Crunching processing karnov engage loveliness first to a tape saturations. The next two are kind of mastering soften saturation.
Thingies then you move into some cube processes, one called push-pull another one called Class A and then you have some solid-state versions of those and you finish it all off with a couple of transformers. If I push the gain up and then change some of the mode, you be able to hear the difference a bit better and, of course, what we do is play with a team find the sweet spot. This works for you because it’s so simple, it’s so easy to use.
You just turn it on and play with a game a little bit. You very quickly know when you’re distorting and that, if you’re going too far – and so you just can back it off a little bit and it’s it’s good, it’s there, the warmth, you you can, you can feel it. You can appreciate it.
It’S not a sort of a mystical plugging that you’re dropping into things you can see what’s going on very quickly very easily and you can make the right adjustments yeah. I think it’s really nice. I think it’s really nice, so I just run an instrument through it to see if that makes any different, rather than an entire mix. Yeah. That’S quite nice too. So I say overall as a distortion, saturation warming plugin. It does a great job on an entire mix. It brings up the volume it sorts out. The sort of the the the beefiness is that the right word it gives you some beef.
One thing I’d really like to mention is the tea rack standalone version? What I like about it is all this metering at the bottom, which I personally find and obviously helpful. For me, that really works is the one that’s called perceived loudness and that just gives you an indication of how loud you should be aiming for in order to get it to be heard at the right sort of volume. So I would recommend that when you get to to the end mastering stage don’t use it as a plug-in in your door, take it out load it up into this piece of software separately by itself and make the use of these awesome meters and stuff.
So that’s my review of I came ultra media’s saturator X is available for 79 euros from the t-rex Custom Shop and until next time go make some tunes .